General Motor and Transport Workers’ Union in Freetown has commended Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Morie Lengor for improving the erratic traffic system in the Western Area since he took up office few months
The people of the Thorminaya section in the Magbema Chiefdom and part of Masungbala Chiefdom in the Kambia district have called on government to step in with immediate effect to settle the long standing dispute
The Sierra Leone Indigenous Traditional Healers’ Union in collaboration with the council of tribal heads will launch its attitudinal and behavioral change campaign on August 7 at the National Stadium. (Photo: One of Sierra Leone's
The worst flooding in Pakistan's history has now affected more than four million people and left at least 1,600 dead, says the UN. "People say they are not getting help from the army or the
Report reaching the Ministry of Defense discloses that six Sierra Leonean Military Personnel serving as Peace Keepers in Dafur, Sudan were involved in a gruesome lorry accident leaving four dead and two seriously injured. The United
Barely a month in office, the interim management team appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation has been bracing up for the challenge to radically develop the national broadcaster in
Africell, the Number One mobile phone network has made a ten (10) units increase on the initial 25 units per minute international tariff. Now, the tariff charged on every international call is 35 units per
In several parts of the world, particularly Oceanic and African countries, the risk of becoming infected with HIV is disproportionate for young girls and women compared to boys and men of the same age. Teenage
President Ernest Bai Koroma has told farmers, paramount chiefs and key institutions in the Agricultural sector that farmers and the people of Sierra Leone should earn what they honestly deserve. The President made these remarks during
The Japanese obviously committed many atrocities and other war crimes on allied Prisoners of War, especially the British and Americans. The experience of Chinese and the Koreans under Japanese invasion and or occupation is a
About 20 accused persons were on Wednesday 4th August, 2010 arrested and detained at the Police cells in the Law Court building on the instructions of Principal Magistrate J.O Wellington. Lawyers were seen running up and
Do you know or have you ever heard of a Nigerian national called Oby Ikeh Unekwe? I am sure that most, if not all, of the journalists in Sierra Leone know her. But for the benefit
Recently while working in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone to document maternal and infant mortality issues, the ministry of health was launching a free health-care program for pregnant women and children under five. I
In part one of the debate on whether or not to accept the new education system introduced by the government, the Roaming Pen critically looked into some of the immediate recommendations of the Professor Gbamanja
Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma has implemented an agenda of sweeping reforms to attract new investment. Three years into the plan, what are the results? When Tony Blair stepped into the Sierra
